The School of Engineering is welcoming 15 new faculty members to its departments, institutes, labs, and centers. With research and teaching activities ranging from the…
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Air quality is measured by sensors on buses
By installing sensors on moving vehicles researchers can measure the air quality at street level in real time in a totally new way. “Air…
X-Ray tomography to show how solid-state batteries charge
Using X-ray tomography, a research team has observed the internal evolution of the materials inside solid-state lithium batteries as they were charged and discharged.…
Uranus and Neptune have probably special inner structure
Uranus and Neptune both have a completely skewed magnetic field, perhaps due to the planets’ special inner structures. But new experiments by ETH Zurich…
EPFL to be a new European high-performance computing hub
EPFL will soon be home to a European hub for high-performance computing focused on fusion power – a potential source of clean, risk-free energy.…
Software operating cameras like video production specialist
Seervision’s software operates cameras as if it were a human and facilitates video productions. The start-up has its roots at ETH Zurich, where students…
Wood as a mini generator
Researchers at ETH Zurich and Empa have chemically modified wood and made it more compressible, turning it into a mini-generator. When compressed, it generates…
A versatile hydrogen sensor was developed
Hydrogen is playing an increasingly important role in the transition to a completely sustainable economy. Right now it is already being used on a…
Physics behind exotic phase transition is uncovered
Scientists at EPFL and the University of Geneva have combined two powerful, cutting-edge techniques to uncover the physics behind an exotic phase transition that…
Molecular simulations show that electrokinteic transport is more reliable
Researcher Remco Hartkamp and PhD student Max Döpke of the Process & Energy Department have taken an important step in making simulation results for…